Word: mining
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...your compatriots at the Times wrote an article with a similar take away point about how novels and social rationales don’t mix, how they’re like oil and water, called “You Read Your Book and I’ll Read Mine.” Well, you can read your book and I can read mine, but I’ll be reading with the world. Ultimately, I don’t think you can read by yourself or that you can read just for pleasure. When you read, you?...
...records have been online for years. Copays are low, and there are no cutoffs for the cost of surgery, hospitalization or other care. Prescription drugs are covered. And premiums are lower than those of for-profit plans. If Barack Obama's health-coverage plan is modeled on one like mine, then everybody can win. Phil Bond, ELK GROVE, CALIF...
China's huge appetite is making some foreign governments nervous. Australia blocked the Minmetals deal with Oz, citing national security, forcing the Chinese firm to revise the offer to exclude a valuable gold and copper mine. And Libya exercised its option to buy Venerex Energy, a producer based in Calgary, Canada, whose biggest asset is an oil and gas field 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Tripoli. That thwarted a $390 million bid that China National Petroleum Corp. had made to acquire Venerex. Beijing hasn't done itself any favors either. It blocked--on antitrust grounds that analysts considered flimsy...
...Twitter, LiveJournal, blogs, and even esoteric Gchat statuses. Call me old-fashioned, but I cannot understand why anyone would care to know ordinary details of a person’s life as captured in 140-character messages on Twitter. Of course, to every rule there is an exception. Mine is Shaquille O’Neal, or “THE_REAL_SHAQ” as he is known on Twitter. My obsession with Shaq’s Twitter started slowly. It was February, and I was in the throes of thesis-writing. While many of my friends were taking full...
...Half Men. What makes the play tolerable are the four good, and very different, actors - Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and James (Tony Soprano) Gandolfini - who at least have some juicy, if stereotypical, characters to sink their teeth into. Unfortunately, the play only made me grit mine...